Incoming Transmission - February Update Video was a webcast short tying in with the Time Lord Victorious multimedia event, and also serving as an update video for the Doctor Who: Worlds Apart online trading cards game, unveiling new updates to its beta interface via the plot device of the game interface being used in-universe as the interface of a UNIT database.
Publisher's summary[]
We've been receiving some really weird transmissions over the past week, but it's finally fully connected!
Where has Sasha gone??? Watch this video and help UNIT find her before it's too late!
This intense tale shows off the upcoming changes to Doctor Who: Worlds Apart, including the new version of the Deck Builder, some fancy new UI updates and the ability to upgrade all TLV cards to Level Three - Animated.
Plot[]
In November 2023, friends Sasha and Darren were abruptly abducted out of time by the Entity. In February 2024, Sasha finally manages to get a glitching distress signal through, and Darren receives the call. She explains that after they were separated, she ended up on a mysterious, ancient-looking ship. She was captured by its crew, who put a bag over her head, but she managed to escape and find a room with comms equipment, hence her current call. Darren, for his part, explains that he was transported to 2053 and was found living on the streets by the future version of UNIT, who recognised him as a stranded time-traveller and recruited him before sending him back to the 2020s.
As they work to deduce Sasha's location, Sasha explains that much of the data she found onboard this ship's sytem was in "a really weird language… all shapes and stuff", but she is able to send new data to UNIT's digital systems interface, cryptically importing that "worlds are going to be much more important than we f*cking thought". Indeed, loading up the visual interface, Darren finds that "selecting the worlds first is key" to tracking down Sasha's locations. After he does so, the system is able to identify Sasha's location as a coffin ship, much to both their distress, which, with a quick scan of the database's "list of [UNIT's] known enemies in that area", leads to the realisation that Sasha is "trapped with a Great Vampire". Sasha is forced to flee when she hears approaching roars, but Darren promises to send her reinforcements, and indeed, just before she's forced to end her transmission, she hears the sound of a TARDIS materialising, prompting her to realise "he's here".
Some time later, Darren contacts Commander Dave to update him on "the Sasha situation", reporting that "the Doctor got there just in time" and Sasha is safe and sound at "UNIT HQ". When the Commander asks if she managed to retrieve any useful information, Darren happily reports that she did indeed, and that her data have allowed UNIT to update all their cards related to the Kotturuh crisis to Level III.
Cast[]
- Sasha - Sasha Blore
- Sergeant Darren - Darren Fitzjohn
- Commander Dave - TBA (voice only)
Worldbuilding[]
- Sergeant Darren claims that 2053 was "amazing", though he was found by the future UNIT "eating a tin of fish fingers and custard in the street".
- The UNIT visual interface includes a Deck Builder on which cards containing relevant data can be slotted.
Notes[]
Sasha Blore applying make-up for the shoot, as seen in the TikTok-posted behind-the-scenes clip.
- Sasha and Sergeant Darren were named after their actors, Sasha Blore and Darren Fitzjohn, also the primary creators of Worlds Apart.
- Doctor Who: Worlds Apart released a behind-the-scenes video of Blore preparing her costume and make-up for the shoot on TikTok.[1]
Continuity[]
- In November 2023, Sasha and Sergeant Darren were transported through time by "the Entity", the main antagonist of the Daleks! webseries, as first mentioned in PROSE: The Restoration Empire [+]James Goss, Time Lord Victorious (Eaglemoss Collections, 2020). and later seen from WC: The Archive of Islos [+]James Goss, Daleks! (2020). throughout the webseries in question.
- The Great Vampires were introduced in TV: State of Decay [+]Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who season 18 (BBC1, 1980)..
- Sasha ends up on a coffin ship. Coffin ships were introduced as vessels of the Great and lesser vampires in COMIC: Monstrous Beauty [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2020)., also playing a part in PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead [+]Steve Cole, Time Lord Victorious (BBC Books, 2020). and PROSE: All Flesh is Grass [+]Una McCormack, Time Lord Victorious release order (BBC Books, 2020)..
- UNIT's visual interface's library of "worlds", in addition to the coffin ship as well as entries for both "prehistoric Earth" and "modern Earth", is shown to include:
- the Dalek homeworld of Skaro, introduced in TV: The Daleks [+]Terry Nation, Doctor Who season 1 (BBC tv, 1963-1964).;
- the Cyberman homeworld of Telos, introduced in TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen [+]Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, Doctor Who season 5 (BBC1, 1967).;
- the Kotturuh homeworld of Mordeela, introduced in PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead [+]Steve Cole, Time Lord Victorious (BBC Books, 2020).;
- Tivoli, homeworld of the Tivolians, first mentioned in TV: The God Complex [+]Toby Whithouse, Doctor Who series 6 (BBC One, 2011)..
- In addition to the Great Vampires, the visual interface's database of "known enemies" of UNIT also includes:
- the Emperor of Restoration as first mentioned in PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]George Mann, Justin Richards and Cavan Scott, Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (Ebury Publishing, 2017). and seen throughout Time Lord Victorious from COMIC: Defender of the Daleks [+]Jody Houser, Time Lord Victorious release order (Titan Comics, 2020). onwards;
- a Cyberman Legion Leader with an exposed brain, resembling the Cyber-Leader seen in TV: A Good Man Goes to War [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 6 (BBC One, 2011).;
- the Tenth Doctor as the Time Lord Victorious, wearing Gallifreyan robes, as seen in PROSE: All Flesh is Grass [+]Una McCormack, Time Lord Victorious release order (BBC Books, 2020)., COMIC: Tales of the Dark Times [+]Comic Creator (Scary Beasties, 2020). and so on;
- the Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War as he appeared as the "God Emperor", a term used by the Emperor to refer to himself in AUDIO: Homecoming [+]Matt Fitton, Time War: Volume Four (Gallifrey: Time War, Big Finish Productions, 2021)., by the time of the Battle of the Game Station, as seen in TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).;
- a Myrka, as introduced in TV: Warriors of the Deep [+]Johnny Byrne, Doctor Who season 21 (BBC1, 1984).;
- Avkhan, a Kotturuh, introduced in AUDIO: The Minds of Magnox [+]Darren Jones, Audio Originals (BBC Worldwide, 2020).;
- the Cyberium as introduced in TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati [+]Maxine Alderton, Doctor Who series 12 (BBC One, 2020).;
- a Cyberman contained in a Dark Water coffin, as seen at 3W Institute in TV: Dark Water [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 8 (BBC One, 2014).;
- the vampirised Rose Tyler and the vampire warrior Drogann, both as seen in COMIC: Monstrous Beauty [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2020).;
- River Song, introduced in TV: Silence in the Library [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008). and seen as she appeared in the climax of TV: Day of the Moon [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 6 (BBC One, 2011)., shooting attacking Silents with a blaster;
- "the Entity" as first seen in WC: The Archive of Islos [+]James Goss, Daleks! (2020).;
- the Racnoss Empress as seen in TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2006 (BBC One, 2006).;
- the Kotturuh themselves, listed as "the Bringers of Death", as introduced in PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times [+]Paul Lang, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2021 (Doctor Who annual, Penguin Group, 2020)., and their crystals, here referred to as Judgement Stones as they were in GAME: Worlds Apart [+]Doctor Who card games (Reality+, 2021).;
- Bronze Daleks causing "Dalek mayhem", as first seen in TV: Dalek [+]Robert Shearman, adapted from Jubilee (Robert Shearman), Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).;
- Death Squad Daleks as introduced in TV: Revolution of the Daleks [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who New Year Special 2021 (BBC One, 2021).;
- the Dalek Time Squad, as introduced in PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times [+]Paul Lang, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2021 (Doctor Who annual, Penguin Group, 2020).;
- the Supreme Dalek from TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008)., referred to as the Crucible Supreme;
- a Dalek neutronic bomb, as documented in TV: The Daleks [+]Terry Nation, Doctor Who season 1 (BBC tv, 1963-1964).;
- a swarm of bats as controled by Aukon in TV: State of Decay [+]Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who season 18 (BBC1, 1980).;
- the Kotturuh Inyit, as seen in PROSE: All Flesh is Grass [+]Una McCormack, Time Lord Victorious release order (BBC Books, 2020).;
- a Triceratops as seen aboard the Silurian Ark in TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 7 (BBC One, 2012).;
- the Mad Sisters as seen in COMIC: Monstrous Beauty [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2020).;
- Necros Daleks as introduced TV: Revelation of the Daleks [+]Eric Saward, Doctor Who season 22 (BBC1, 1985).;
- Imperial Daleks as introduced in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)..
- The "TLV Cards" include the Great Vampires, the Time Lord Victorious, Vampire Rose, and also Friar Grystok as seen in COMIC: Monstrous Beauty [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2020)..
- Other entries in the visual interface database include a Dalek Ambassador as well as the "Exodus Cybermen" (the Cybermen seen in TV: World Enough and Time [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 10 (BBC One, 2017). and TV: The Doctor Falls [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 10 (BBC One, 2017).), both designations from GAME: Worlds Apart [+]Doctor Who card games (Reality+, 2021)..
Footnotes[]
- ↑ Doctor Who: Worlds Apart (8 February 2024). BTS!!. Twitter. Archived from the original on 8 February 2024.
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